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What?!
100
A mixture if copper and tin
What is bronze
100
a period when not enough rain and snow falls
What is drought
100
picture writing
pictograph
100
What two things were the rivers surrounding Mesopotamia useful for?
What is water for crops and fertile soil
100
What were the three social classes of Sumerian society?
What is upper class - king and priests in-between classes- free people- farmer and artisans slaves
200
the largest and most important structure in a Sumerian city, temple
What is ziggurat
200
flat land bordering the banks of a river
What is floodplain
200
a community that included a city and its nearby farmlands
What is city-state
200
How did soil become so fertile for growing crops, despite the semiarid climate?
What is rain and melting snow from mountains flowed down into rivers, soil carried silt and nutrients to the floodplain, when the floodplain overflowed it deposited fine soil and made land fertile.
200
How did people become slaves and become free again?
What is prisoners of war or if parents died or very poor If they worked off their debt they became free
300
a belief in many gods and goddesses
What is polytheism
300
fine soil deposited by rivers after flowing downhill
What is silt
300
a sharpened reed used to press markings into a clay tablet
What is stylus
300
How did Mesopotamians hold back extra water from flooding?
What is canals and irrigation systems
300
Name and describe three of the five traits of civilization?
What is advanced cities, specialized workers and complex institutions.
400
more than what is needed to survive
What is surplus
400
an advanced form of culture
What is civilization
400
What are the two rivers that surround the area of Mesopotamia?
What is Tigris and Euphrates
400
What materials were houses and village walls made of?
What is mud walls
400
How did Mesopotamians get resources that were not naturally found in their land?
What is trading and surpluses
500
a hot and dry climate
What is semiarid
500
a region in souther Mesopotamia
What is Sumer
500
Name two major inventions of the Sumerians and explain how they were helpful
What is writing, wheel, math....
500
What was the purpose of the ziggurat?
What is center of city life, priests collected $$ and ran irrigation system
500
WHAT MODERN DAY COUNTRY IS LOCATED WHERE MESOPOTAMIA ONCE WAS?
What is iraq/kuwait